The Feast

Annavromoeʎ da, mvysqo unáq̌rivqo xtej kin oeʎtulunđy. Ihʎu ŋgo nǰyderumusqaʎ. Aælqo ǰor vuqatti hlu dvirijunǰor dosunǰor, tez ğev dosil rjoez ǰor da doslot.

Though we burned by the thousands, that overflowing light filled us with desire. We all must have found it beautiful. Only we few reached the corpse and ate it; thus occured the Feast, and we became Feasters.

-Ziryuwah, in Lives and Deaths of the Feasters, published 1412 DR. English translation by Simon Zaifęrai of the Šisoi, 2999 DR

The animals of the world were drawn to the corpse of the Fallen.

After the Fallen and the Light fought and died, they both fell from the sky. The Light's fall stopped above the ground, and it floats there still, its light creating a habitable circle in the great darkness. The Fallen did not stop, but impacted the coast of a now-gone continent, burning the land and boiling the ocean.

Before the darkness was purged, the ground was covered with countless animals of many species, lying dormant without any Will with which to do metabolism. The light of the fallen woke them, and they all were drawn to its splendor, travelling through the burning land and boiling water the get to the corpse. Millions of animals died, but some reached the corpse and ate its flesh, using it to heal the continuous charring of their bodies.

For two hundred years they ate, their skin ever melting off their bodies. Many animals died on the corpse of the Fallen, and were in turn eaten by others who had reached that glowing flesh. Only eight survived, and slowly their bodies changed from the animals they had been to towering unique bodies. This event is known as the Feast, and those animals became the Feasters.

The subject of this article has the following names in the languages of Vássoe: dosil (Aaqhan), ot'ixee (Q'ao), tzennúrwa (Charwattan), anpǒšǔǔ (Nordañ), ęyáŋęnšïáf (Ęsa̋lęw).